OACETT - News and Announcements

July 24, 2017

Join OACETT for a night of celebration All industry stakeholders and friends are invited to OACETT's Provincial Honours and Awards Gala on Friday, October 20, 2017 at the Grand Luxe Event Boutique in Toronto.

June 27, 2017

Immediate need for members on Codes Committees There is an immediate need for volunteers to serve on either the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC), a senior committee responsible for the development of Codes Canada publications, or on one of the CCBFC’s nine technical standing committee to replace membership vacancies for the current (2015-2020) code cycle.

June 22, 2017

OACETT Council Documents Please see below the June 1 Council meeting and the June 3, 2017 AGM documents.

June 21, 2017

Skills Ontario, the Carole and George Fletcher Foundation, and the Kiani Foundation collaborate on engineering technology education award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students in Ontario Skills Ontario, the Carole and George Fletcher Foundation and Kiani Foundation signed an agreement to administer an award to First Nation, Metis and Inuit applied science and engineering technology students in Ontario.

June 20, 2017

OACETT AGM & Conference 2017 highlights OACETT kicked off its 2017 Annual General Meeting and Conference from atop a mountain – a fitting locale from which to look back on 60 years of organizational progress and to prepare for the shifting landscape ahead.

June 16, 2017

Greg Miller appointed president of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists Toronto, ON (June 15, 2017) –The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) began a new era of leadership with the appointment of Greg Miller, C.E.T., CBCO, as its president on June 1, 2017.

May 01, 2017

St. Lawrence College crowned National Engineering Month Ontario student challenge winner St. Lawrence College civil engineering students Lianna Grice and Cally Barrett are the 2017 winners of the National Engineering Month (NEM) Ontario College Student Challenge.

April 25, 2017

OACETT and The Personal reach new partnership agreement Earlier this year, OACETT renegotiated a 10-year contract with our affinity partner, The Personal, to offer our members discounted rates on home and auto insurance. We devoted a great deal of due diligence to arriving at an agreement that would deliver maximum value to our members.

April 05, 2017

OACETT Election results announced OACETT’s Returning Officer, Gene Stodolak, C.E.T., has confirmed the electronic vote count received from Evote.ca Inc./Everyone Counts.

March 29, 2017

Carole and George Fletcher Foundation reaches $1 million fundraising goal The Carole and George Fletcher Foundation, established by the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT), is celebrating the success of one its most ambitious fundraising ventures, announcing that the 25 for 25 Building Forward Campaign has achieved its $1 million goal of establishing an endowed fund at each of Ontario’s 25 colleges.

March 23, 2017

Celebrating 60 years of OACETT milestones This year, OACETT is celebrating 60 years of advancing the engineering and applied science technology profession in Ontario. This diamond anniversary offers an ideal opportunity to reflect on all we have accomplished over six decades, and, to do that, we need you.

March 17, 2017

Council Update - March 2017 OACETT held its first Council meeting of 2017 on February 24 with the following highlights...

March 14, 2017

Polls now open for OACETT's election Polls are now open for OACETT certified members to elect representatives for the new term on Council.

March 14, 2017

Teaching and Technology Transfer Grant recipients for 2017 announced Five new recipients have been selected for OACETT's Teaching and Technology Transfer Grant, established to provide financial assistance to Ontario college faculty teaching in OACETT-recognized engineering technology and applied science programs, to attend a conference, workshop, seminar or symposium that will promote enhanced excellence in technology education and technology transfer with direct benefits to students, industry and OACETT membership at large.

March 10, 2017

OACETT Council Documents Please see below the February 24, 2017 Council meeting documents